Principal AI Engineer, Director

Royal Bank of Scotland; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland in India is seeking a Principal AI Engineer at director level to design and engineer AI-powered solutions with customer experience at the core. You will shape major components of the bank's target architecture and technology roadmap while engaging senior stakeholders.

You’ll lead complex initiatives, align technical delivery with strategic objectives, and drive adoption of AI engineering practices across teams, including the Lending AI Agent Platform.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software development teams in a matrix structure.
• Strong background in Agile/DevOps and scalable software engineering practices.
• Experience with AI agents, loop engineering, telemetry, and safe termination criteria.
• Ability to translate product and business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Proven track record designing multi-agent workflows using frontier LLMs.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement AI engineering strategy, architecture, design patterns and guardrails, ensuring secure, resilient, and production-ready solutions.
• Lead development and scaling of AI-powered tooling and agent capabilities across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Enable engineering teams to accelerate delivery through collaboration with AI agents.
• Provide technical leadership for the Lending AI Agent Platform and its core services.
• Develop reusable AI engineering capabilities, including evaluation and benchmarking frameworks, testing approaches and model lifecycle tooling.
• Drive adoption of context engineering patterns, governance controls, and deployment automation for trusted AI at scale.

Skills

Software architecture

Leadership

AI/ML Engineering

Agile & DevOps

Test-driven development

Multi-agent systems

Frontier LLMs

Automation

Observability

Tools

Orchestration frameworks

Telemetry & monitoring

Job description

Join us as a Principal AI Engineer

This is a challenging role where you'll design and engineer innovative AI-powered solutions with the customer or user experience at their core

Using your engineering expertise, you'll work closely with architects to shape major components of the bank's target architecture and technology roadmap

You’ll gain valuable exposure to senior stakeholders while continuing to develop your technical expertise and leadership capability

We're offering this role at director level

What you’ll do

As a Principal AI Engineer, you’ll create customer value through innovative engineering solutions that are customer-focused, secure, scalable, high-performing and resilient.

You’ll lead complex and strategically important initiatives, coordinating multiple teams to deliver meaningful business outcomes. We’ll look to you to align technical delivery with strategic objectives and help deliver against key performance measures published to our investors.

You’ll also be:

• Defining and implementing AI engineering strategy, architecture, design patterns and guardrails, making sure solutions are secure, resilient, observable and production-ready
• Leading the development and scaling of AI-powered tooling and agent capabilities across the software delivery lifecycle
• Enabling engineering teams to accelerate delivery, improve quality and augment human expertise through effective collaboration with AI agents
• Providing technical leadership through design, development and operation of the Lending AI Agent Platform and its core services
• Developing reusable AI engineering capabilities, including evaluation and benchmarking frameworks, testing approaches and model lifecycle tooling
• Driving the adoption of context engineering patterns, governance controls and deployment automation to support trusted AI solutions at scale

The skills you’ll need

You’ll bring significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, alongside a strong track record of developing software within Agile and DevOps environments.

Along with an expert understanding of emerging technologies, engineering practices and industry trends, you’ll have substantial experience implementing software engineering best practice across scalability, automation, optimisation, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Significant experience of test-driven development and using automated testing frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• The ability to rapidly understand product and business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions
• Experience in loop engineering for AI agents, including feedback loops, verification loops, retry strategies, progress checks, guardrails, telemetry and safe termination criteria
• A proven track record of designing and implementing multi-agent workflows, using frontier LLMs and orchestration patterns to balance quality, latency and cost

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 04/09/2026